Donald D. Stull

Reorganization as Status Drama: Building, Maintaining, and Displacing Dominant Subcultures

establishing organizational cultures, and the impact of sagas and myths on structure.3 Consultants have watched their carefully designed interventions founder on unspoken assumptions. They have devised diagnostic culture audits and culture-gap profiles to guide their actions.4 Bureaucrats and executives act as tribal leaders; they tell stories, repeat myths, and stage rites and ceremonials.5

The ritual of reorganization in a public bureaucracy

Cultural aspects of complex organizations have recently captured the attention of scholars, yet empirical studies in this area remain rare. This paper explores the paradox that reorganizations are common in modern bureaucracies even though they have been found to have few instrumental effects. The present study of a state regulatory agency found that while reorganization had little instrumental consequence, it did provide the context for a power struggle between the administrative and occupational spheres of authority. In fact, reorganization proved to be a highly ritualized arena for significantly altering the agencys informal structure by replacing an entrenched dominant subculture. By examining the symbolic and ritualistic nature of this process, this paper looks beyond the ineffectual manifest functions of reorganization to uncover its power latent functions.

The Wages of Food Factories 1

The goal of modern, industrial agriculture has become the production of large quantities of uniform products at the cheapest price. Emblematic of these trends, and in many ways responsible for them, is the meat and poultry industry, which has led American agribusinesss headlong plunge into vertical integration and contract farming. Through restructuring, it has managed to externalize many of its costs and impose them on job-hungry small towns in the Midwest and South. The meat and poultry industry, and the food factories that produce and process its products, impose needless harm on animals, land, workers, and communities. This article examines the consequences of industrial food production and processing and suggests possible public policies and actions to mitigate the harmful effects of food factories.

Any Way You Cut It: Meat Processing and Small-Town America.

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